Publication Type
Report
Year
1-2019
Abstract
This publication seeks to expose some of these gender biases and put forward ideas to begin closing a digital skills gender gap that is, in most parts of the world, wide and growing. Today, women and girls are 25 per cent less likely than men to know how to leverage digital technology for basic purposes, 4 times less likely to know how to programme computers and 13 times less likely to file for a technology patent. At a moment when every sector is becoming a technology sector, these gaps should make policy-makers, educators and everyday citizens ‘blush’ in alarm. The publication explains the role gender-responsive education can play to help reset gendered views of technology and ensure equality for women and girls. The report is broken into a policy paper and two think pieces.
Disciplines
Communication Technology and New Media | Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication | Science and Technology Studies
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
Publisher
EQUALS
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
West, Mark; Kraut, Rebecca; and CHEW, Han Ei.
I'd blush if I could: Closing gender divides in digital skills through education. (2019). 1.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/oi_research/20
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Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons